From: Helfenbein, Henry (Henry.Helfenbein@sanmina-sci.com)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 19:07:47 EDT
Thanks go to Bill Hassell, Tom Myers, and Jeff Cleverley.
No matter how persistent I was, I could not access the drive or it's data.
The hard disk bit it good! Luckily, time was on my side with this one...
I swapped the defective disk with an HP Support replacement, IGNITE-ed it,
and the system is up.
Thanks again for the quick replies!
Henry Helfenbein
UNIX Systems Administrator
SANMINA-SCI, Phoenix
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hassell [mailto:pooderbill@mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:46 AM
To: Helfenbein, Henry
Subject: Re: [HPADM] Non-bootable C360 workstation:
No possibility of getting the network operational. Networking is extremely
complicated and requires most of HP-UX to be intact. In your case, the boot
disk is damaged and some portion cannot be read so several files, maybe
several directories are completely inaccessible. Restoring these files will
not necessarily fix the problem. I/O is the key: the disk is damaged,
perhaps
from a head crash or just a plain bad spot but it is in a critical part of
the
kernel's key files.
About your only choice is to replace vg00 from your Ignite tape and hope
that
the bad spot(s) will be relocated. And if not, replace the disk and load the
Ignite tape onto the new disk.
Best regards,
Bill Hassell, pooderbill@mindspring.com
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An I/O error at that point in the boot process indicates that a bad spot has
developed on the disk. Since relocation is disabled for the boot and root
logical volumes, your only recourse is to Ignite the workstation and specify
a mediainit on that disk. In THEORY, you could boot off a recovery CD,
rename the bad files, restore them from the boot CD or other available
source, then try and boot again. However, you don't know if/when that bad
spot (or the next one) will turn up and bite you again. The mediainit
actually does some simple write/read testing of each sector and usually
manages to map out intermittent failing blocks.
Cheers, Tom
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Tom Myers, Information Systems Engineer; Delphi Delco Electronics Systems,
IS&S - KAT Admin, M/S CT200, P.O. Box 9005, Kokomo IN 46904-9005
E-Mail: tvmyers@eng.delcoelect.com Voice:765-451-0918
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Henry,
Mount the disk on another machine and do it that way. You can either remove
the disk and put it in a tower and access it or if you have a second scsi
card on another machine you can actually boot to the boot prompt and plug
the internal scsi port to the external on the second system. This method
eliminates having to change scsi id's and will work if you don't have an
external tower to put it in.
Jeff Cleverley [jeffc@ftc.agilent.com]
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ORIGINAL POST:
I have a C360 that won't boot. It gets to the fsclean/fsck and then
displays: "fsck: cannot open config directory. /sbin/lib/mfsconfig.d: I/O
ERROR". It goes on to do /sbin/ioinitrce and the same error displays. It
eventually gets to /sbin/bcheckrc and fsclean and I get the same error. It
wants a manual fsck, but I try an "fsck -y" and it you guessed it: the same
error.
I assume that something's whacked, deleted, or corrupt, so I checked another
workstation for this path and find that there are three files in the
directory (cacheFS, hfs, and VxFS) and the file also states that they are
needed or the workstation will not boot. Cool.
So, my question: what are my options? Can I pull only these specific files
from an old IGNITE tape? Can I get this thing on the network somehow and
copy them over? I can't figure another way to do that. Any suggestions on
how to get this up again?
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